Community Currencies Workshop 2.0: Difference between revisions

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Bernard Lietaer's Yin-Yang spectrum of currencies with visual aids; mystery of the billion who live on < $2/day
Exercise: organize bag of visual aids along the spectrum from pure gift currency all the way to pure yang currency
Exercise: find local examples of gift economies transformed into yang currency and its side-effects (e.g. childcare, education, healthcare)
Exercise: design the return of a non-gift currency back to pure gift; pre-requisites: trust, healthy community

are banks really too big to fail? In what way does life change if they disappear?
what are banks useful for: settling payments (clearing), providing information (risk assessment), setting incentives (interest rates), pooling resources, transferring resources (import/export from community), i.e. creating and maintaining currency,.
how can local people do all that without a bank and without any organisation?
exercise: create cheques ; what makes a cheque acceptable common and/or legal tender?
exercise: create minuto vouchers;

unmatched 2000 years of wealth and health for ordinary people;
How do govt's accelerate destruction OR rekindle people's wealth and healthy communities?
- impose taxes only in scarce legal tender (gold, roman coins, dollars) + facilitate compound interest (esp. in no-growth economy)
- allow tax payments in abundant common tender (ostraca, bracteates, local currencies) + facilitate demurrage (negative interest)
- charge rent on land (+roads, patents, copyrights, EM spectrum, natural resources) instead of income, business and sales tax; redistribute to people (Alaska, Norway)
exercise: create a todo list for designing your regional dual currency system
- decision 1: relationship to national currency? unit of measurement? spectrum from hours to dollar-equivalent
- decision 2: brainstorm catalog's keystone offers and requests (comox dentist story)
- decision 3: brainstorm matchmaker(s) and how to compensate them (eat own dogfood?)
- decision 4: relationship to the internet: online and/or paper currency, catalog and accounting
- decision 5: succession planning (in the event of natural death or scaling up)

300 years of accidental wealth and health for ordinary people in Western Europe due to Renovatio Monetae
exercise: find pros and cons of: regular jubilees in which all debts are cancelled vs. steady demurrage
exercise: suggest policies for dealing with members who are way off balance.
exercise: brainstorm ways to increase the speed of circulation

review local history: co-ops, consumer unions, credit unions, food banks, micro-credit, opensource, crowfunding, sharing, etc
review local mutual credit history: TimeBanks, LETS, CES, Regioweld, Barter Rings, Openmoney, etc
design or improve a local currency: matchmaker + catalog + transparency + dunbar#
exercise: where does your designed regional currency fit in with the history of people money in your area? What lessons have been learned?

exercise: what kind of currency is Bitcoin in terms of yin-yang indicators?
exercise: how to improve a currency using the Block Chain Protocol. pros + cons [1]
exercise: how to improve a currency using chiralkines. pros + cons [2]

in the end, what is money, really?
exercise: the paradox of "measuring into existence" gift economies
exercise: what are some metrics that indicate successful currencies (or not)
end with a conscious potluck
homework: read the e-books in banks-need-boundaries.net/reading_list.php especially Mystery of Money

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 * exercise: what are some metrics that indicate successful currencies (or not)
 * end with a conscious potluck
+* homework: read the e-books in [http://banks-need-boundaries.net/reading_list.php banks-need-boundaries.net/reading_list.php] especially [http://docs.banks-need-boundaries.net/en/Lietaer__Mystery_of_Money.pdf Mystery of Money]